Ngapakaldia
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Ngapakaldia is a genus of marsupials from the late Oligocene .
features
Ngapakaldia , the "animal from Lake Ngapakaldi, " was about the size of a sheep. It had a posteriorly raised skull , a flat muzzle , large skull windows, V-shaped chewing surfaces of the molars, and broad, lance-shaped first incisors . The second and third toes were thinner than the fourth and fifth toes of the rear of the foot and also stored in a common fold of skin. Ngapakaldia probably lived on the shores of the lakes in inland Australia and fed on riparian plants, although its teeth appear suitable for cutting leaves. Ngapakaldia was probably very common around Lake Ngapakaldi in his time.
species
There are three known species: Ngapakaldia tedfordi Stirton, 1967a lived in northern South Australia, belongs to the local Ngapakaldi fauna there, as well as Ngapakaldia bonythoni Stirton, 1967a, but this species came among others. A. also in the Frome Embayment in South Australia. A third species, Ngapakaldia sp. Black, (1997a), was found in Riversleigh , Queensland , and is a member of the local Sticky Beak fauna. The closest relative of Ngapakaldia was probably the Diprotodon Pitikantia . Partial be ngapakaldia and Pitikantia in the family palorchestidae asked.
literature
- Long, Archer, Flannery, Hand: Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea, one hundred million years of evolution . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London 2002, ISBN 0-8018-7223-5
- PV Rich, GF van Tets: Kadimakara, Extinct Vertebrates of Australia . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1990